this is a 2010 video game stop wasting so much money on fidelity and realism and just make more cool video games that will be quicker to release and cheaper to make and also look fine - ThreadSky

lukeplunkett.com • 61 days ago

this is a 2010 video game

stop wasting so much money on fidelity and realism and just make more cool video games that will be quicker to release and cheaper to make and also look fine

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jimbobmcboatface.bsky.social•61 days ago

No matter how much better the graphics are of Rdr2, the immersion and feeling I got of Rdr1, will never be matched.

chashodges.bsky.social•61 days ago

Is this the best example when the game still took ~1,000 people 5 years and ~100 million dollars to make?

jocker12.bsky.social•61 days ago

they want you not to play but plugin and live there. it cost lot of time and money

ottermakegames.bsky.social•61 days ago

Yeah done with the graphics space race. Use that extra power for things like more robust gameplay computations.

futureeuropa.bsky.social•61 days ago

honestly, they could just make smaller games again, instead of trying to create massive games with a gorillion enemies and features. Keep it simple stupid and iterate in smaller steps!
Indie games are doing the right thing :)

solvseus.bsky.social•61 days ago

What do you mean, I loved playing... AH OMG!!!

corrie206.bsky.social•61 days ago

No. Stop wasting money by not paying CEOs ridiculous bonuses.

dphrygian.com•61 days ago

I mean, that was a very expensive 2010 video game.

More games like Gravity Bone: https://store.steampowered.com/app/974090/Gravity_Bone/

lukeplunkett.com•61 days ago

(not my point, my point linked right under it is that in 2025 we'd be fine with 2010 AAA)

vinniecheng.bsky.social•61 days ago

gravity bone/thirty flights of loving are some of my favorite games

cornchipwarrior.bsky.social•61 days ago

Couldn't agree more, as per a post I made 2 months ago.

gael-ico.bsky.social•61 days ago

RDR1 really doesn't look fine, GTA IV is a better example of the time same developer

jasonbenj.bsky.social•61 days ago

Agreed

rowan.monster•61 days ago

might be time for me to finally play Crysis

cartermrh.bsky.social•61 days ago

Nothing ever needs to look better than a ps3 game

davidthoughts.bsky.social•61 days ago

This game was absolutely bleeding edge at the time.

29sunset.com•61 days ago

Are big budget games going to follow the trend of animated movies, where they'll go away from nearly uniform hyper realism only after one "risk" taker (Spider-Verse) proves that's not what is drawing audiences?

lukeplunkett.com•61 days ago

blocking/muting a lot of replies here!

"thIs GamE wasnT CHeaP" i said cheapER (obv relative to rdr2), not cheap, what is wrong with you, please dont reach out to a stranger on the internet to be an annoying pedant, i know how games are made, thank you!

lukeplunkett.com•61 days ago

"doNT pay CEOs sO MUch" thats a different problem, im aware of it, thank you!

lukeplunkett.com•61 days ago

2017, 2010, whatever, why am i having to link to the same blog twice in one thread!

cutlass00.bsky.social•61 days ago

I want cheaper games made by less people honestly. I'm fine with that. I just want them to be fun

lukeplunkett.com•61 days ago

yes, i am carrying my 2024 bugbear into 2025

lukeplunkett.com•61 days ago

glad i opened that link to re-read it lol

coryzanoni.com•61 days ago

100% agreed and Wolfenstein is a great example. I played The New Colossus for the first time a couple of years ago and was blown away. I occasionally think “I kinda want to play a shooter” and then realise, no, I want to play TNC.

chriswgates.bsky.social•61 days ago

honestly, the most visually striking game I played last year was 1000xResist, and that was ALL just staging/lighting/art direction.

turnsky.bsky.social•61 days ago

there's little reason why gamedevs can't take a stylistic approach to how games look instead of shooting for ultra realism for the umpteeth time.
Games like Stray, Hi-Fi Rush, and even Warframe's inherent weirdness attest to that notion.

targetthestrike.bsky.social•61 days ago

a lot of indie titles exist, and they are forced to take a less realistic approach due to budgetary restraints

turnsky.bsky.social•61 days ago

and necessity being the mother of invention, we have far more creativity in the indie game space than 95% of the AAA games out there.

and it's hardly the fault of the boots on the ground devs, either.

ironedsleeper.bsky.social•61 days ago

You’re using Red Dead as the argument that we dont need to focus on fidelity?

Well if we’re playing calvinball then here’s my example of why every individual dot on a painting isn’t important:

abelv.bsky.social•61 days ago

me when I choose the wrong screenshot

prinnytonic.munichfgc.de•61 days ago

Even tho it is old, using RDR as an example of a quick and cheap to make video game is just insane.

buckeyeboy50.bsky.social•61 days ago

Half life 2 is still one of the best looking video games ever and it released in 2004

buckeyeboy50.bsky.social•61 days ago

And F.E.A.R from 2005

buckeyeboy50.bsky.social•61 days ago

Halo 4 was an Xbox 360 game and looked like this

radiodeadair.com•61 days ago

How about we spend a whole bunch on fidelity and realism once we stop wasting so much money on the executives who re-start development on the same game three times because they're chasing trends and getting paid 1/4 of all the company's revenue by themselves.

rednoodle325.bsky.social•61 days ago

Idk, once you have success, kinda tough to follow it up with anything but a polished product.

aptlyasked.bsky.social•61 days ago

I never got into high realism games. I just want to get away for a couple of hours: build cities, factories, space ships, whatever. Or just drive around some roads in a bf bus and crash into things occasionally. (CS1, Factorio/Satisfactory, SE1, BeamNG.)

twilightteahouse.bsky.social•61 days ago

💯

bikemerlin.bsky.social•61 days ago

I played dishonored for the first time this month on my new costco 1440p monitor. 20hrs, 140fps, goofy story. Impeccable. More pretty please

oldmanant.bsky.social•61 days ago

Like, it's ok...
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ekf7rwg6ybff664yfhcsks77/post/3lffyfzeidk2h

boredjonathan.bsky.social•61 days ago

Really is impressive how well RDR has aged. Just started replaying it for the first time since it released, this time on PC, and I've been consistently shocked at it looking largely how I remember in my mind's eye. (Minus some of detail in the faces)

sparkyj23.bsky.social•61 days ago

Crossing into Mexico and opening that barn door are two moments that stick with me even now.

eloquentire.bsky.social•61 days ago

also "realism" in games isn't really an art style. & it won't age well. no man's sky will look better than starfield, star citizen & elite dangerous in a decade just off actually artistic personality

bicklytor.bsky.social•61 days ago

Maybe the fact that RDR still looks good a decade later, even though it was a "realistic" game at the time, implies that even realistic games have an art style.

targetthestrike.bsky.social•61 days ago

I been playing this fun indie game (gif is from someone else's gameplay)

gbastable.bsky.social•61 days ago

What is this?

pyrholidon.bsky.social•61 days ago

Nobody cares how realistic the grass is.

tanner099.bsky.social•61 days ago

GTA:Vice City and Star Trek Bridge Commander are the best games ever (and Castle Wolfenstein).

danks.bsky.social•61 days ago

Thank you

zstackz.bsky.social•61 days ago

I’ve always wondered they haven’t went with like ps2/ps3 era graphics. These old games still look good then add like hd textures and good lighting. Game would look even better.

I don’t think every game needs super detailed models for everything.

jbloodthorn.bsky.social•61 days ago

It's simple. They don't know how. The workflows are completely different now, so it's only the oldheads who ever even learned. Like how every single rock in Halo 3 is one model, creatively positioned. But now, they have a rock generator that takes CPU time and a texture set that hogs the GPU.

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